题目
But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of the classic act of reading, it has been suggested that almost 80 percent of America's literate, educated teenagers can no longer read without an accompanying noise (music) in the background or a television screen flickering at the corner of their field of perception. We know very little about the brain and how it deals with simultaneous conflicting input, but every common-sense intuition suggests we should be profoundly alarmed. This violation of concentration, silence, solitude goes to the very heart of our notion of literacy; this new form. of part-reading, of part-perception against background distraction, renders impossible certain essential acts of apprehension and concentration, let alone that most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves, which is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
Under these circumstances, the question of what future there is for the arts of reading is a real one. Ahead of us lie technical, psychic, and social transformations probably much more dramatic than those brought about by Gutenberg, the German inventor in printing. The Gutenberg revolution, as we now know it, took a long time; its effects are still being debated. The information revolution will touch every fact of composition, publication, distribution, and reading. No one in the book industry can say with any confidence what will happen to the book as we've known it.
The picture of the reading ability of the American people, drawn by the author, is ______.
A.rather bleak
B.fairly bright
C.very impressive
D.quite encouraging
第1题
A leader can hardly maintain his/her position unless he/she ______.
A.fulfils all necessary quality requirements
B.helps people to prevent defeats and sorrows
C.fails to attract people with common concerns
D.lacks appealing and strength ,of character
第2题
A leader can hardly maintain his/her position unless he/she ______.
A.fulfils all necessary quality requirements
B.helps people to prevent defeats and sorrows
C.fails to attract people with common concerns
D.lacks appealing and strength ,of character
第3题
A leader can hardly maintain his/her position unless he/she ______.
A.fulfils, all necessary quality requirements
B.helps people to prevent defeats and sorrows
C.fails Co attract people with common concerns
D.lacks appealing and strength of character
第4题
(Its hardly ever necessary) to ask a hungry boy (to come to) dinner twice because he (has a hearty) appetite that (gets him to) the table quickly.
A.Its hardly ever necessary
B.to come to
C.has a hearty
D.gets him to
第5题
(Its hardly ever necessary) to ask a hungry boy (to come to) dinner twice because he (has a hearty) appetite that (gets him to) the table quickly.
A.Its hardly ever necessary
B.to come to
C.has a hearty
D.gets him to
第6题
I can hardly hear what he's saying, and______.
A.so can all the other people
B.nor can all the other people
C.so can hardly all the other people
D.nor all the other people can
第7题
I can hardly hear what he's saying, and______.
A.so can all these other people
B.so can hardly all these other people
C.nor can all these other people
D.nor all these other people can
第8题
Hardly had he arrived in Hongkong_____she rang me up.
A.when
B.than
C.that
D.and
第9题
I can hardly hear what he's saying, and ______.
A.so can all these other people
B.so can hardly all these other pople
C.nor can all these other people
D.nor all these other people can
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